Where do you get this at? He's going to be allowed to practice and play in all four preseason games. He's not suspended untill the regular season begins. Unless you can find a credible source to support your argument I'm almost positive you're wrong.

You posted this yourself earlier in the thread,

In a letter to Johnson, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said that he would be prepared to reduce the suspension to the first six regular-season games if Johnson meets certain conditions.

The conditions include:

-- No further adverse involvement with law enforcement and full compliance with any requirements imposed by a court.

-- Compliance with all league requirements, including counseling.

-- No participation in any practices or other organized team activities during the period of the suspension. Johnson may, however, be present at the Bears' facility during the suspension for counseling sessions and other approved activities such as physical treatment or individual workout sessions.

Commissioner Goodell said that he would review the matter no later than Oct. 1 to assess Johnson's progress and determine whether the suspension should be reduced.

Location: And it's not even that big of a deal, something like 8% of kids do it.

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I think his suspension his ********. Pac-Man Jones (as bad a person as he is) got a full season suspension and did nothing illegal or jail-worthy, yet Tank Jones, who broke the law and served 60 days in jail only gets 8 games? There's no organized system to these suspensions and that's plain stupid, it makes NO sense at all.

A. It's Johnson, not Jones.
B. Tank doesn't have any felony charges being investigated against him, aside from the Ice Bar incident, stayed out of trouble, where as Pac-Man has had several felony investigations, and hasn't kept his nose clean.

I think his suspension his ********. Pac-Man Jones (as bad a person as he is) got a full season suspension and did nothing illegal or jail-worthy, yet Tank Jones, who broke the law and served 60 days in jail only gets 8 games? There's no organized system to these suspensions and that's plain stupid, it makes NO sense at all.

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That's irrelevant, Tank Johnson has been convicted of an illegal crime and spent 60 days in jail, Pac-Man Jones has not even spent one day in jail, therefore the severity of Johnson's inappropriate behavior in comparison to Pac-Man Jones' suspension merely for substance abuse (among other things such as attending a strip club before meeting with the comish, even though that's 100% legal) is extremely contradicting.

That's irrelevant, Tank Johnson has been convicted of an illegal crime and spent 60 days in jail, Pac-Man Jones has not even spent one day in jail, therefore the severity of Johnson's inappropriate behavior in comparison to Pac-Man Jones' suspension merely for substance abuse (among other things such as attending a strip club before meeting with the comish, even though that's 100% legal) is extremely contradicting.

I see your point but the NFL has said that they don't need a conviction to suspend players. I also agree that the NFL shouldn't just be banning players like this because there is no system set up to make sure it's fair.

That said, Pacman has hurt the league's reputation more than Tank. That's why he was suspended longer. Right or wrong, that's why it was done.

I do agree that you have some valid points and I definitely think the NFL needs to setup a system to clean this whole situation up.